Welcome to Dolmen

Overview

Dolmen is a free, open-source software toolbox for the analysis of annotated speech. It offers a user-friendly interface to manage, annotate and query language corpora. It is particularly well suited for dealing with time-aligned data. The main features it offers are:

Project management: organize files into projects and manage versions.

Extensible metadata: files can be annotated with properties, which allow you to sort and organize your data.

Interaction with Praat: Dolmen can read TextGrid files and open files directly in Praat.

Scripting engine: Dolmen can be extended with plugins written in Lua and JSON.

Dolmen runs on all major platforms (Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux) and is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
The latest version of Dolmen can be downloaded from http://dolmen.rtfd.io. If you encounter any problem or bug,
please write to jeychenne@gmail.com.

Download

Dolmen 2 (preview version)

Dolmen 1.9 is the latest Dolmen: it is a preview version of Dolmen 2.0, currently available for Windows and Mac. Although it is still lacking some features and its documentation is incomplete,
all users are encouraged to upgrade to this version as it contains many improvements and bug fixes.

Dolmen 1.3 (stable version)

Installation

Windows

On Windows, Dolmen is provided as a self-contained installer file. Simply double-click on ‘dolmen_setup.exe’ and follow the instructions.

The procedure will install Dolmen in your Program Files directory and will create a shortcut in the start menu (and optionally on the desktop).

If you wish to be able to open files in Praat from Dolmen, you will need to install Praat in Dolmen’s installation directory, which should be either
C:\Program Files (x86)\Dolmen2\Tools or C:\Program Files\Dolmen2\Tools, depending on your system. Alternatively, you can modify Praat’s default
path with the preference editor.

Mac OS

On Mac OS, Dolmen is provided as a standard DMG image disk. Mount the image by double-clicking on it and drag the application Dolmen into your
Applications folder. If you want Dolmen to be able to interact with Praat, you will need to install it in the Applications folder too.

Currently, only Mac OS 10.7 (Snow Leopard) and later are “officially” supported. It does not work on earlier versions.

Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)

The official executable that is provided on the website is built on Debian 9 and is available for 64-bit architectures.

Since the program is available as a dynamically-linked executable, first make sure that the needed dependencies are installed (asound, libsndfile, speexdsp, Qt 5 and GTK 2). Most of these packages should already be installed, but you can issue the following command in a terminal to make sure they are:

Compiling from source

You need to install the development packages for QT 5.3 or greater (including the sqlite plugin), GTK 2, ALSA (libasound2), libspeexdsp and libsndfile.
You also need to manually build Qwt 6.1.0 (or later). Then, assuming that you have downloaded the source for version 1.3 in your Downloads directory,
you can compile it by typing the following commands in the terminal:

unzip dolmen-1.3.zip
cd dolmen
qmake dolmen.pro; make

This will create an executable file called dolmen that you can put anywhere. To put it in /usr/local/bin, do:

sudo mv dolmen /usr/local/bin/

Assuming that sudo is installed and properly configured on your system. You can then run Dolmen by simply typing dolmen in the terminal.

Known issues

On Mac OS, clicking on the sound scrollbar buttons after an item is selected in a tier results in the scollbar moving until an edge is reached.